Someone DM’d me my home address on a pseudonymous account I thought had no ties to my IRL identity.
Probably someone who already knew your address IRL, but then found your online account and decided to mess with you.
Siblings? Friends? Neighbors?
I doubt someone who never met you IRL could’ve found you address (unless you leaked it somehow).
For a while, while I was on reddit I had a new account send me “my home address” every couple weeks, I think it was the same person using multiple accounts. They always got the address wildly wrong though. Which is weird because it would have been very easy to figure out what city I’m from at least.
When I was young I had the bright idea to take a copyrighted, published book and only change the names of the characters to an anime I liked and post it up on fanfiction.net. Totally knew what plagiarism was then. Didn’t think I’d get caught.
No idea why I thought that, either… People who like reading books also like reading fanfiction. Up until then I’d had a small following, so it was traumatic when all those people immediately - and very rightly so - got mad at me. My whole ffn account got wiped clean.
However, that was back when doxxing wasn’t really a big thing and everyone was satisfied with my account being wiped. No one tried to hunt me down or call my school or whatever. I just sulked around the house a lot and then made a new account with only my original fanfiction writing. I can’t imagine what it’d be like trying to do that today, even if I was young like I was back then.
When i was around 13-15 years old, i followed a creepypasta page on facebook, and since fb at the time was adding more automated moderation they decided to create a private group (so they didn’t have to worry about ppl reporting their content) which i decided to join.
It was normal at first, people posted the same content there as the regular page, but then they started posting gore, and then cp, like actual, real cp. I also noticed that a lot of the members of the group had variations of the same profile pic: a heart with a smaller heart inside it.
I decided to gtfo of there, and a few days later i saw a report in the news about a symbol that pedophiles were using to identify themselves online: a heart with a smaller heart inside it.
To this day it gives me chills to think how in danger i could’ve been.
I once mentioned being proud of my mixed-race family and was called a racist.
Also, the day I decided maybe social activism wasn’t for me.
Ah, the horseshoe theory proving nutjobs who wants apartheid because they think races can’t mix because checks notes they think there will always be a problematic power imbalance so lets not even try integration
Someone doxxed me and spread a photo of my face with the text “she said she was 18” superimposed on it (in meme format), and then spreading it in the community.
All because they took issue with a friendship I had with another user who “sounded young”. Which culminated in the community leadership getting her to prove she was, in fact, not underage, “just in case” we ended up in a relationship because they “know how these things go” or something.
